{"id":250705,"date":"2023-01-12T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2023\/01\/12\/250705\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:27:11","slug":"some-800-million-drams-refunded-to-armenian-pensioners-as-cashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2023\/01\/12\/250705\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 800 million drams refunded to Armenian pensioners as cashback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, January 12. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>Some 800 million drams have been refunded to Armenian pensioners in the form of cashback for cashless payments made by their cards over the last six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some 44 million drams were refunded&nbsp;&nbsp;in July, 74.4 million in August, 118.7 million in September, 152.3 million in October, 185.6 million in November and 226 million drams in December 2022,&#8221; Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said at the government session today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that refunds were given to 76 thousand pensioners, who used their cards to make purchases and pay utility bills. He added that the average amount of a cashback is 3.4 thousand drams (per month).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It turns out that for 76,000 people we have increased pensions, on average, by another 3,400 drams,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government-designed scheme enabling pensioners to get cashback (no more than 5,000 drams a month) for cashless transactions was launched July 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today this opportunity is available to senior customers of four Armenian banks &#8211; VTB Bank (Armenia), Ardshinbank, Armbusinessbank and Acba Bank. The government said earlier it will extend the scheme until June 30, 2023. ($1 &#8211; 395.96 AMD). &#8211;0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 800 million drams have been refunded to Armenian pensioners in the form of cashback for cashless payments made by their cards over the last six months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}